Contains 2070 photos
View north on Battery from Market, ruins of the W. S. Clark Building at center. North Shore Railroad locomotive 'Electra' and debris railroad car, horses and wagons clearing rubble after 1906 earthquake. Piles of reclaimed bricks and man cleaning off mortar. [4247 Debris RR and electric locomotive] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Financial District
View northwest to reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Call Building under repair, Chronicle Building, scaffolding for Monadnock Building on right. Flannery Building in distance center. Teams of horses with debris wagons. [4248 Clearing the site for a skyscraper.] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east past relief office. Whittell Building, City of Paris, Butler Building on right. Chronicle Annex, Mutual Savings Bank and Call Buildings in background. [4254 Union Square Aug 1906] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast to intersection of Post and Grant showing considerable reconstruction after 1906 earthquake and fire. Shreve Building (originally opened 1905, William Curlett architect) on left. In center distance, Merchants Exchange Building is still under repair. At right, work is underway on the ruins of the W.&J. Sloane Building, which had housed the home furnishings store of that name since it opened in 1900 (Tharp & Holmes architects). Following the 1906 catastrophe, it was demolished to its steel frame and rebuilt as the Jewelers Building (150 Post, Lewis Hobart architect, opened 1908 and remains standing in 2021) (AS)[4267 Shreve Building Jan 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northeast over rubble and cleared lot after 1906 earthquake and fire to busy scene of reconstruction, pedestrians, horses and wagons. Flood Building under repair with scaffolding, Western National Bank at corner has reopened. Towers of Temple Emanu-El in left distance. Tents, shacks and small temporary buildings set up, with signs such as "We Buy Gold", "Smith Rice Co. Riggers, General Contractors." [4268 James Flood Building September 1906] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
South of Market
View east of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Chronicle building annex at center on Kearny Street. Steel frames of several buildings have gone up, including Oscar Luning Building 45-47 Kearny, at center (1907, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Architect). [4306 Chronicle Building vicinity April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west on Geary with St. Francis Hotel under repair in far distance. Reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Whittell Building with large sign: 'This building constructed by J. R. Bowles.' Line of parked buggies and horses. Speck & Co. Street work. [4307 Geary Street from Market April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Merchants Exchange Building and Kohl Building in distance, London & San Francisco Insurance Co. Building between. W. Loaiza & Co. [4310 Sansome and Commercial streets looking w] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Financial District
View east on Sutter to early automobile and horsedrawn buggy driving west. Reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. [4312 From Sutter and Grant east along Grant A (sic)] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square
View east to Chinatown reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Street work with piles of debris, dirt, and brick. Nearby buildings in view all still stand in 2021. [4313 Jackson St between Grant and Stockton Ap] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Chinatown
View south of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Wagons and horses, debris and piles of dirt. Many brick buildings extant in 2018. [4315 From Jackson and Dupont street south] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Chinatown
View north during reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. S.F. Paving Co. wagon pulled by team of horses transporting dirt. [4316 From Stockton and Pacific along Stockton] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View toward Telegraph Hill past ruins and rubble following 1906 earthquake. Walls of Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school. [Catholic school] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Russian Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across ruins after 1906 earthquake to St. Boniface church. MJB. Coffee ad (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on Gough past 1906 earthquake ruins, including corner of 1st Infantry Regiment Armory building at southeast corner of Gough and Page. Remains of damaged Valencia Street Power House chimney at right. Sacks of provisions stacked along Page. (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Civic Center